Phishing attacks have become an epidemic in the business world. In fact, according to a recent study by SANS, they comprise 95% of all attacks on enterprise networks—at an average cost of $4 million in damages.

It’s easy to think of cybersecurity threats as something that mainly targets the nation’s largest and most profitable enterprises. In the news, we see stories of the data breaches of massive healthcare and insurance networks, of retailers with thousands of nationwide outlets, and of government offices compromised with complex, sustained attacks, sometimes presumably undertaken by state-sponsored actors. It’s enough to make you think that the little guy, the scrappy, independent small to medium-sized business (SMB), is flying under the radar of the hackers. But that is, unfortunately, not at all the case.

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